Last Sunday afternoon, 1 was having dinner in a restaurant when my friend Poor came in. Poor and I were born in the same village. We have been friends since primary school.
Now we are working in the same bank. Poor has earned a lot of money, but he has a habit of not taking money with him. Whenever he needs to use money, he would borrow money from his friends and never pays it back. Because of this, his friends don’t like going out with him. They think Poor is too mean(吝啬的). Poor saw me and came to sit at my table. He had never borrowed any money from me. When he was eating, I asked him to lend me two dollars. To my surprise, he gave me the money without hesitation. "I have never borrowed any money from you, "Poor said. " So you can pay for my dinner. "The story happened .
A.at home | B.in a restaurant |
C.in a bank | D.in an office |
Poor is the name of a man and the writer .
A.Knows him well |
B.Doesn't know him |
C.often lends him some money |
D.often borrows money from him |
Poor is a man.
A.busy | B.clever | C.rich | D.poor |
Why was Poor glad to lend the writer two dollars?
A.Because they are brothers. |
B.Because Poor is rich. |
C.Because the writer is rich. |
D.Because Poor wanted the writer to pay for the dinner. |
Section B
Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
Just before midnight, six University of Cincinnati students were watching TV in an on-campus apartment when three men burst through the door. While one of the intruders pointed a gun at the group, the other two scooped up $4,400 worth of laptops, cell phones, video games and cash. Once they had what they wanted, the trio fled into the night.
Furious, the students chased down and tackled one of the burglars -- the one with the gun. In the struggle, it went off, and a bullet grazed a student's leg. His friends piled on the gunman and held him until police showed up.
By the next day, the injured young man was back in his apartment, and the suspect was in jail, charged with burglary, felonious assault and receiving stolen property. But how did the men manage to storm into an on-campus residence that November night in the first place? Simple: Students told police the building's main doors hadn't latched properly for days.
As parents confront ballooning college costs and shrinking acceptance rates, they are finding themselves with an even bigger, more basic problem: Which campuses are safe? Colleges seem like idyllic and secure places, and for the most part, they are. But ivy-covered walls can't keep out every bad element. This country's 6,000 colleges and universities report some 40,000 burglaries, 3,700 forcible sex offenses, 7,000 aggravated assaults and 48 murders a year. Other hazards -- fires, binge-drinking, mental-health problems -- are also on the rise.
Of course, that's not what parents and students see on America's serene campuses. There's a false sense of security, says Harry Nolan, a safety consultant in New York City. "Students see guards patrolling at night or a video camera monitoring the dorm entrance and think, Nothing bad can happen to me," he explains. "People don't know that safety controls are often very lax."
65. What did the students do after the burglars fled into the night?
A. They stood there in surprise. B. They ran after the burglars at once.
C. They waited for the police. D. They phoned their teacher.
66. What does the underlined word “latched” in the third paragraph probably mean?
A. watched B. fixed C. locked D. kept
67. What worries parents most except ballooning college costs and shrinking acceptance rates?
A. Their children’s grades in the universities or colleges.
B. Their children’s safety in the universities or colleges.
C. Their children’s behavior in the universities or colleges.
D. Their children’s relationship with classmates in the universities or colleges.
Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast.Rather than take the aeroplane all the way,they decided to fly from China to Vancouver and to take the train from west to east across Canada in September.The idea that they would cross the whole continent was exciting.
Their friend,Danny Lin,was waiting for them at the airport.He was going to take them to catch ‘The True North’,the cross-Canada train.On the way to the station,he told them, ‘You’re going to see great scenery on your trip.Canada is bigger than the United States.It is second biggest country in the world and as you go eastward,you will see mountains and pass thousands of lakes,forests and wide rivers as well as cities.The idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days is just wrong.It is 5,500 kilometres from coast to coast.Here in Vancouver,you are in the warmest part of Canada.Many people think it is the most beautiful city in Canada,as it is surrounded by mountains on the north and east and the Pacific Ocean on the west.Its population is increasing very rapidly,because the mountain-and-sea city is a very popular place to live in.Even people from Japan come to settle down here.
That afternoon on the train the cousins settled down in their seats.They crossed the Rocky Mountains earlier that day and looked out of the windows at the wild scencry.They saw mountain goats and even a grizzly bear.Their next stop would be Calgary.The Calgary Stampede is a famous Western festival,Cowboys come from all over North America to compete in riding wild horses.Many of them have a gift for working with animals and they can win thousands of dollars in prizes.
That night,they slept as the train rushed through the night across the top of Lake Superior.through the great forests and southward towards Toronto.
64.How did Li Daiyu and Liu Qian arrive in Canada?
A.They sailed across the Pacific Ocean. B.They flew to Vancouver.
C.They took a train to Vancouver. D.They flew to the Atlantic coast.
65.Witch order is right of their train trip?A.Vancouver Calgary Lake Superior Toronto
B.Toronto Vancouver Calgary Lvake Superior
C.Vancouver Lake Superior Calgary Toronto
D.Lake Superior Vancouver Cvalgary Tvoronto
If you go to Juliano’s restaurant in San Francisco,you can’t get a cup of coffee or a hot cheese sandwich.All the food in the restaurant is raw,including the pizza and the rice.
Juliano thinks that cooked food makes us sick. “Food is alive,like you and me.When you cook food,you take away some of the vitamins,”he says,Juliano never eats food that is over 50 degrees.His restaurant doesn’t have a stove(火炉) or a microwave(微波炉).But he has lots of clever ideas for making raw food taste great.Instead of heat,Juliano uses water to prepare foood.He puts foods in water to make them soft.For example,he places beans in water for a few days and rice in water for two or four weeks.
Everything at the restaurant is cold,and the pizza and the rice taste good.So do the fruit and vegetable juices made from carrots ,apples,oranges and so on.Juliano’s restaurant doesn’t serve meat,but some people who cat raw food also eat raw meat.Juliano has three friends who ate raw meat.They all got very sick..One of them is still sick.
Juliano eats mostly fruits,vegetables,nuts,rice and beans.He says he feels very healthy. “Raw food gives you lots of energy,”he says,Juliano says he needs only six hours of sleep a night,and he never gets sick..
61.What is the main idea of the passage?
A.A man who eats only raw food. B.A special restaurant in San Francisco.
C.Raw food is better than cooked food. D.How to make raw food taste good.
62.How is the food in Juliano’s restaurant prepared?
A.Foods are put into water to make them soft.
B.Foods are cooled in a fridge.
C.Foods are heated on a stove to a certain degree.
D.Foods are boiled and then cooled.
63.What is NOT served in Juliano’s restaurant?
A.Carrot juice. B.Cold pizza. C.Raw rice. D.Hot meat.
Started in 1636,Harvard University is the oldest of all the many colleges and universities in the United States.Yale,Princeton,Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.
In the early years,thers schools were much alike.Only young men went to college.All the students studied the same subjects,and everyone learned Latin,Greek and Hebrew.Little was known about science then,and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world.When the students graduated,most of them became ministers or teachers.
In 1782,Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors.Later,lawyers could receive their training in Harvard’s law school.In 1825,besides Latin and Greek ,Harvard began teaching modern languages,such as French and German.Soon it began teaching American history.
As knowledge increased.Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects.Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.
Today,there are many different kinds of colleges and universities.Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning.There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer it all.
56.The oldest university in the US is__________.
A.Yale B.Harvard C.PrincetonD. Columbia
57.From the second paragraph,we can see that in the early years, __________
A.those colleges and universities were the same
B.people,young or old,might study in the colleges
C.students studied only some languages and science
D.when the students finished their school,they became lawyers or teachers
58.Mondern languages the Harvard taught in 1825 were__________
A.Latin and Greek B.Latin,Greek,French and German
C.American history and German D.French and German
59.As knowledge increased,colleges began to teach__________
A.everything that was known B.law and something about medicine
C.the subjects that was known D.many new subjects
60.On the whole,the passage is about__________
A.how to start a university B.the world-famous colleges in America
C.how colleges have changed D.what kind of lesson each college teaches
第三部分阅读理解(共15小题,每小题2分,共30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Once there was an old man in a town.He always forgot a lot of things.So his wife always had to say to him, “Don’t forget this!”
One day he went on a long trip alone.Before he left home,his wife said, “Now you have all these things.They are what you need for your trip.Take care of your things during the trip.”He went to the station,bought a ticket and got on the train with it.
About half an hour later,the conductor began to check the tickets.He came to the old man and said, “Will you please show me your ticket?”The old man looked for his ticket in all his pockets,but he could not find it.He was very worried. “I can’t find my ticket.Ireally bought a ticket before I got on the train.”said the old man.
“I believe you bought a ticket.All right,you don’t have to buy another one.”said the conductor kindly. “But how can I know where I’m going?----I can’t remember my station!”the old man said sadly.
51.The old man in the story was very__________.
A. kind B.poor C.forgetful D.sad
52.Where is the ticket?
A.The old man forgot to buy it.
B.The old man could not remember where it was.
C.The old man showed it to the conductor.
D.The old man’s wife took the ticket away.
53.The old man bought the ticke__________he got on the train.
A.before B.after C.as D. when
54.The conductor__________the old man.
A.didn’t believe B.laughed at C.believed D.felt soory for
55.The old man was sad because_____________.
A.he sad to buy another ticket B.he lost all the things his wife gave him
C.he did not know where he was D.he did not know where he should get off